This is a must-read election resources for anyone who cares about K-12 education: interactive maps on where the candidates stand, stories on the issues, and a really insightful podcast on races to watch and how the results could change education.

Nova Scotia, a coal-powered Canadian province of less than a million people, plans to enact a feed-in tariff for small-scale renewable energy generation as part of a scheme to become a world leader in clean energy by 2020.

Germany and Spain might still dwarf the United States in installed solar power capacity, but after a year in which U.S. capacity jumped past 2,000 megawatts and photovoltaic costs continued to fall, there is hope for the growing solar industry.

But when the overwhelming majority of earth scientists say global warming is occurring, why is scientific evidence still unable to communicate the urgency of the climate crisis to a large portion of the American public?